Computed axial tomography
... a guide for interventional procedures. Sometimes
contrast materials such as intravenous iodinated
contrast is used. This is useful to highlight structures ... to delineate from their surroundings. Using
contrast material can also help to obtain functional ...
Microscope
... techniques are usually necessary to increase the
contrast in the image to useful levels (see
contrast methods ). Typically, on a standard compound ... microscope
Field emission microscope
Phase
contrast microscope , see Frits Zernike
Scanning ...
Magnetic resonance imaging
... medical examinations. Often, a paramagnetic
contrast agent, a gadolinium compound, is administered, ... each other as separate), MRI provides far better
contrast resolution (the ability to distinguish the ... each of which is optimized to provide image
contrast based on a particular property of the subject.
...
Culture
... nature ".
Some social critics, from the 18th century on, accept this
contrast between cultured and uncultured, but emphasize that refinement and ... -- they are just cultured in a different way. Thus, social observers
contrast the "high" culture of elites to "popular" or pop culture , meaning ...
Adaptive radiation
... ability can reach new parts of its environment. An example of general adaptation is bird flight.
Environmental change. A species that can, in
contrast to the other species in the ecosystem, successfully survive in a radically changed environment will probably branch into new species that cover the ...
Anaphase
... with cell type. In mammalian cells anaphase B follows shortly after anaphase A and extends the spindle to around twice its metaphase length; in
contrast yeast and certain protozoa use anaphase B as the main means of chromosome separation and can extend the spindle to up to 15 times its metaphase ...
Apoptosis
... main types of programmed cell death (PCD). As such, it is a process of deliberate suicide by an unwanted cell in a multicellular organism . In
contrast to necrosis , which is a form of cell death that results from acute tissue injury, apoptosis is carried out in an ordered process that generally ...
Bacterium
... mitochondria and chloroplasts . Their cell structure is further described in the article about prokaryotes , because bacteria are prokaryotes, in
contrast to organisms with more complex cells, called eukaryotes . The term "bacteria" has variously applied to all prokaryotes or to a major group of them, ...
Biochemistry
... . In 1828 , Friedrich Whler published a paper about the synthesis of urea , proving that organic compounds can be created artificially, in
contrast to the common belief of the time that organic compounds could only be made by living organisms. It is generally accepted that the term biochemistry ...
Bone
... bone is put down rapidly during growth or repair. It is so called because its fibres are aligned at random, and as a result has low strength. In
contrast lamellar bone has parallel fibres and is much stronger. Woven bone is often replaced by lamellar bone as growth continues.
Long bones are tubular ...
Carnivore
... carnivores, for example the well known Tyrannosaurus rex and sabretooth tiger .
See also
cannibalism
insectivore
Compare and
contrast
herbivore
omnivore
...
Cytoplasm
... Cytoplasm is the colloidal , semi-fluid matter contained within the cell 's plasma membrane , in which organelles are suspended. In
contrast to the protoplasm , the cytoplasm does not include the cell nucleus , the interior of which is made up of nucleoplasm .
Components of the ...
Gel electrophoresis
... preferred matrix is purified agarose . In both cases, the gel forms a solid but porous matrix that looks and feels like clear jello. Acrylamide, in
contrast to polyacrylamide, is a neurotoxin and needs to be handled using Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) to avoid poisoning.
The second part, " ...
Endergonic reaction
... reaction in which the change in free energy is positive. An endergonic reaction is a reaction in which ΔG > 0 in Gibbs free energy , in
contrast to an exothermic reaction , which uses ΔH as in enthalpy .
See also: exergonic reaction
...
Bacterium
... mitochondria and chloroplasts . Their cell structure is further described in the article about prokaryotes , because bacteria are prokaryotes, in
contrast to organisms with more complex cells, called eukaryotes . The term "bacteria" has variously applied to all prokaryotes or to a major group of them, ...
Facilitated diffusion
... the molecule across the membrane, where it is released. The protein then returns to its original shape, to wait for more molecules to transport.
In
contrast to active transport , facilitated diffusion does not require energy and carries molecules or ions down a concentration gradient.
...
Gel electrophoresis
... preferred matrix is purified agarose . In both cases, the gel forms a solid but porous matrix that looks and feels like clear jello. Acrylamide, in
contrast to polyacrylamide, is a neurotoxin and needs to be handled using Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) to avoid poisoning.
The second part, " ...
Gene therapy
... the difficulty in producing it. This type of virus is being used, however, because it is non-pathogenic (most people carry this harmless virus). In
contrast to adenoviruses, most people treated with AAV will not build an immune response to remove the virus and the cells that have been successfully treated ...
Heterotroph
... heteron = (an)other and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that requires organic substrates to get its carbon for growth and development.
contrast with autotrophs which use carbon dioxide as sole carbon source. All animals are heterotrophic, as well as fungi and many bacteria . Some ...
Human
... has a significant influence on, or can even be said to control, human behaviour. Emotional experiences perceived as pleasant, like love or joy ,
contrast with those perceived as unpleasant, like hate , envy , or jealousy .
In Penses , Blaise Pascal wrote of the emotions:
Weariness — ...
Lung
... system of air sacs is to ensure that the airflow through the avian lung is always traveling in the same direction - posterior to anterior. This is in
contrast to the mammalian system, in which the direction of airflow in the lung is tidal, reversing between inhalation and exhalation. By utilizing a ...
Origin of life
... back to ancestral reactions that provide alternative pathways to the synthesis of organic building blocks from simple gaseous compounds. In
contrast to the classical Miller experiments, which depend on external sources of energy (e. g. simulated lightning or UV irradiation), "Wchtershuser systems" ...
Peripheral membrane protein
... subunits of many ion channels and transmembrane receptors , for example, may be defined as peripheral membrane proteins. These proteins, in
contrast to integral membrane proteins, tend to collect in the water-soluble fraction during protein purification .
An exception to this rule is that ...
Prokaryote
... without a nucleus . The name prokaryote comes from the Greek pros meaning before and karyon meaning nut, referring to the nucleus. This is in
contrast to eukaryotes , organisms that have cell nuclei and may be variously unicellular or multicellular. The difference between the structure of ...
Punctuated equilibrium
... short in comparison with the periods during which they retain the same form." Because Darwin stressed the gradual nature of evolution, to clearly
contrast it with the then-popular catastophism, it is often incorrectly assumed that he insisted that the rate of change be constant or nearly so. ...
Red Queen
... by natural selection.
The recognition of a simple example of a biological arms race (from Richard Dawkins ) can be achieved by considering the
contrast between two adaptations of the polar bear . This animal has a coat of hair which is thick to help the bear survive the cold of the arctic and white ...
RNA
... DNA (in eukaryotes exported into the cytoplasm ) and is used to encode proteins.
RNA genes are genes that encode functional RNA molecules; in
contrast to mRNA, these RNA do not code for proteins. The best-known examples of RNA genes are transfer RNA ( tRNA ) and ribosomal RNA ( rRNA ). Both ...
Splicing (genetics)
... .
In eukaryotes , a gene often contains altering sequences known as exons (expressed codons) and introns (interrupting codons). In
contrast to prokaryotes , which do not usually have introns, eukaryotes initially create a primary mRNA transcript called pre-mRNA that is composed of both ...